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Edward Curtis, the renowned turn-of-the-century photographer who devoted his entire life documenting all things Native American, is most famous for his Magnus opus, The North American Indian, a 20-volume set of books that was published between 1907 and 1930. The stunning visual images captured by th…

Jesse H. Bratley image
Jesse H. Bratley was born in Brown Town, Wisconsin in 1867. In
1893 he joined the Government Service to be a teacher. Over the
next ten years he taught or presided at schools on several Indian
Reservations, In the 1890s, Bratley introduced sub-irrigation
methods, bl…

Golden Eagle Fieldwork
Museum staff Bailey, Niedrach, and Landberg took several field
trips to nearby cliffs in Douglas and Weld County to study the
golden eagle circa 1935. They suspended bird blinds to photograph
the nest with young chicks. Imagine using the bumber of this
1938 Ch…

Expedition to China & Japan 1870-1911, Part
II
A wooden crate containing 34 boxes of glass and nitrate
negatives was shipped from an unknown source to the Museum in
1985. The crate indicated a date of 1907 but paper found
inside one of the crates dates to 1870. The images …

June 9, 2011 is International Archives Day!
Today we reach out to our community to remind them of the
importance of archival collections, and to encourage them to learn
through the study of the primary sources we preserve. We are
celebrating this year with the debut of our blog, which will
fe…

Expedition to China & Japan 1870-1911
A wooden crate containing 34 boxes of glass and nitrate
negatives was shipped from an unknown source to the Museum in
1985. The crate indicated a date of 1907, but paper found
inside the crate was dated 1870. The images are of a trip taken to…

Museum Field Truck Ready to Go -
1927
Museum employee Frank Figgens sits in the driver's seat of a
DMNS field truck outside of the Museum before heading out on an
expedition sometime around 1927. Field trips took days and
sometimes weeks, and stocking up on supplies was essential. Not…

In 2010 the estate of Henry W. Toll donated to the Museum's
Library his collection of materials on the Grand Canyon. The
collection includes 180 books, several large atlases, periodicals,
catalogs, river runner guides and logs, and postcards. Most are
early works, published from the late 1800s…

Can you Find the Water Ouzel Nest? c. 1918-1935
While the Water Ouzel's nest (also known as American Dippers) is
barely seen on the cliff to the right, photographer Robert B.
Rockwell unintentionally caught a stunningly beautiful Colorado
River scene as well. Rockwell was an early Na…

Figgins and Reinheimer in the Field - c.
1913-1933
Museum Director Jesse Dade Figgins and Preparator Philip
Reinheimer pose for a photo in a log cabin while out on a
specimen-collecting trip in the field likely sometime in the 1920s.
While expeditions today rely on computers and cameras, on…